yeah i'm doing it all myself in my garage which only leaves me with 1 and
a half feet at one side of the car to work in so its not ideal but I'm havin a
great time doin it. I quite fancy the mk2 fiesta for it aswell but I reckon if
I do this sort of thing again it'll be on a puma or something similar. If you
ever get the chance to do something like this I'd definately reccomend it.
At first I thot it was going to be too difficult to do at home with no
proffesional equipment but once I finally but the bullet and started stripping things and cutting big bits out everything jsut gradually fell into place.
the only major issue is wheel allignment which isnt too critical at the front
as the tracking allows for a very slight tolerance but the back end is going
to be a nightmare since there isnt much adjustment on the standard
cossie setup that I'm using. I was quite lucky when it came to sourcing
parts aswell cos my dads mate runs a scrappy that has a contract with
the DVLA where they get all the cars which have been ordered to be crushed
becuase of no road tax and other reasons, when I first saw the cossie
there I asked about it and he said he was wanting a grand for the engine,
loom, diff and gearbox and the engine was seized!!! I didnt have the
money at the time, 3 months later I sold my motorbike and went back up
and it was still there but someone had taken the diff and front
suspension, when I mentioned it again he just said, tell u wot, £700 and
you can have everything you need, so for £700 I got the engine,
management loom, ECU, borg warner box, front subframe, full car loom, complete dash, complete back end including arms, beam, hubs, discs,
calipers etc, all ancillaries for engine, turbo, injectors basically everything. And when I got it home it turned out the engine wasnt even seized!!!!!! the starter motor was fucked!!!!!!!! so I was well happy with that lol.